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Thinker and revolutionary John Zerzan has been widely credited with inspiring the new generation of antiglobalization activists. Collecting essays and interviews, Running on Emptiness reflects Zerzan's wide range of interests, from the political (“We All Live in Waco”) to the personal (“So ... How Did You Become an Anarchist?”). This book deftly mixes history, anthropology, science, cultural theory, and politics to offer a critique of society as well as a blueprint for change. “John Zerzan ... can now credibly claim the ... honor of being America's most famous anarchist. ” — Derrick Jensen, Utne Reader
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The title describes the book better than it describes our society.......2006-11-23
I've seen plenty of political stances before, but I find this one unusual. Perhaps I've spent too much time reading books by liberals and conservatives.
Zerzan is an anarchist. To him, Noam Chomsky is simply too conservative, maybe reactionary. Now, to some extent, I might agree with that feeling, given that Chomsky has picked up some rather reactionary political allies. And Zerzan does make the point that Chomsky has said little about nature or women. But no, I don't buy the idea that this makes Chomsky just another right-winger. Nor do I agree with, for example, Zerzan's implication that Chomsky (who has said he wants a "two-state" solution in the Levant) is too pro-Israel.
Can a book annoy me to such an extent as to get me to give it a one-star review? Yes. And this book is an example of one that has done so. Zerzan thinks we need to dismantle our overly technological society. And I think that's a very poor idea. If this book had made a reasonable case for doing that, I would judge it less harshly.
In my opinion, bringing down our society would at best send us into a new Dark Ages, removing our rights, freedoms, prosperity, and well-being. It would also get rid of our access to truth and to our means of bettering ourselves. While our species might survive, I suspect that most individuals would die an ugly death, as without modern technology, the planet's population would quickly drop catastrophically. Even the end of the Western Roman Empire wasn't pretty, especially in the British Isles, and the demise of our present society could well be worse.
Yes, much of what our society does uses up non-renewable resources. But I think the answer to that is to use up fewer resources, not to abandon technology! After all, some technology has shown us how to better our lives inexpensively. Even some of the more expensive applications of technology, such as huge advances in the field of medicine, are things that many members of society might feel are worth preserving. And I think a great example of a less costly achievement of our present society is computer-based technology, which has made data storage and retrieval, calculations, and communications far easier. Let's see what Zerzan has to say (in this book, no less) to one of my heroes (Marvin Minsky), a person who has done superb work in a field (the theory of computation) that I think benefits all mankind:
"I believe I am not alone in the opinion that vermin such as you will one day be considered among the worst criminals this century has produced."
Um, wow. I have annoyed people in the past for many reasons, such as my religious views or political views. But I'm more than a little surprised to see such implicit annoyance with the fact that I've taught a couple of computer science courses in which I rather liberally used material from a textbook written by Marvin Minsky! I had to reread this, just to make sure that Minsky was actually being attacked for his scholarly achievements.
I guess that by teaching this subject, I've become an, um, accomplice to Minsky's "crimes." And that makes my failure to recommend this book rather self-serving. But I'll do it anyway.
"We must be outsiders.".......2006-10-09
Anarcho-primitivist philosopher John Zerzan's book "Running on Emptiness: The Pathology of Civilization" is a collection of essays written between the years 1992-2001. While the essays cover a wide range of subjects--from the personal "So...How Did You Become an Anarchist?" the cultural critique "Why I Hate Star Trek" and the militant "He Means It--Do You?" the essays essentially cover the same idea--civilization is rotten. Zerzan argues that civilization "took a wrong turn with the advent of animal domestication and sedentary agriculture." These events, according to Zerzan, led to the exploitation of the planet, "hierarchal social structures" and the "ideological control of the many by the few." Zerzan argues we've been going downhill ever since, and "seeks to merge anarchist socio-political analysis with radical deep-green environmental thought" while advocating moving forward to a "future primitive" world.
As I passed through a particularly rotten part of town yesterday, I watched people on filthy, rubbish covered streets, pushing their shopping carts, while mini-skirted, drug-ravaged prostitutes hawked their wares at passing motorists. Zerzan's words came back to me, and I found myself mulling over his arguments. And he is right on many issues here. Civilization is rotten, but when it comes to what we should do about it, I admit that I part ways with anarcho-primitivism. There's a great deal to be said for a cessation of global warming, and living with less in a simpler society with no division of labour etc. But I have to think that civilization and technology have brought some positive results. A future primitive state would certainly solve a lot of problems but other problems would be created in its wake. For example, humans now live a lot longer than our ancient ancestors, and a future primitive culture would mean a total lack of medicine--other than 'natural' cures. Zerzan argues that cancer was "unknown before civilization" but it's impossible to know that--there may have been less cancer, but we can't assume there was NO cancer. The modern diet, along with contaminants and pollutants are no doubt partly responsible for the epidemic proportions of cancer in today's society. But there's absolutely no guarantee that cancer would disappear in a future primitive culture, and it doesn't take a great deal of imagination to realize that in a future-primitive society, deaths would occur for fairly simple routine problems due to untreated appendicitis, for example, or c-sections without anesthesia.
Zerzan's essay "So...How Did You Become an Anarchist?" is one of the highlights of the book. It's intensely personal and details Zerzan's gradual philosophical development towards green anarchy. The essays "He Means It--Do You?" and "Who Is Chomsky?" draw a line between anarcho-primitivism and traditional anarchy while condemning the latter. Other essays cover Zerzan's anti technology position, his relationship with Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski, and his beliefs regarding time keeping and memory. There's a direct connection between anarcho-primitivism and Situationist ideas, and Zerzan's book offers the prescriptive theory that the original Situationists never really discovered.
"Running on Emptiness: The Pathology of Civilization" gets five stars for making me think--and while most of that thinking was to decide what I did and didn't agree with, the book was well worth reading. There are lessons to be learned from these essays, and while I can't see myself in a future primitive culture, who knows what lies ahead for our planet. If politicians insist on using their arsenals of nuclear weapons, humans may well find themselves living in a primitive state--not by choice--but thanks to the stupidity of those in power--displacedhuman
Luddites of the World Unite!.......2004-07-10
At a time when I've been regarding anarchy as a mere euphemism for impotence, John Zerzan's Running on Emptiness has come across my desk. One of the more articulate of marginalized writers on the counterculture scene today, Zerzan encourages us to embrace the present, our connectedness to the earth and to nature itself. He suggests that we wean our hyper-dependence on technology to do this for starters. While Zerzan fluently cites examples of our current plight of apathy/ alienation via a kind of incendiary deftness that has earned him the 'most important philosopher of our time' kind of lavish praise from Derrick Jensen, I'm still not completely won over when it comes to abandoning my computer and making a dash to nature like some 21st Century Schizoid Rousseau.
However, I enjoy the challenge John poses of soberly looking at whatever banal assumptions I may make about how convenient and carefree technology has made my life. The more insidious effects of PCs, the Internet, cell phones, even call waiting on our consciousness, on our potentials for deeper sentience, can really only be gauged by someone like Zerzan, who has resolutely resisted the all too powerful seductions and promises of the digital age. Such freedom from technological spell casting is evident in Zerzan's obvious command of philosophy, the depth and breadth of his research and in his ability to breathe vitality into such stolid behemoths as dialectical State apologist Kant, the 'Crypto-Aryan' Heidegger, the Frankfurt Schoolboys Adorno, Walter Benjamin and others. More important than his obvious pansophical exuberance is the author's honest ease which is very rare in a world currently colonized by morbid intellectuals. I suggest reading the New York Review of Books if you need to be reminded of just how moribund the (com)postmodern intelligentsia have become, fingering their well worn copies of Lyotard, Derrida, Baudrillard and other not so Free Radicals who only serve to accelerate the breakdown of what remains of our culture, offering nothing redeeming in return whatsoever other than their perpetually cynical excrescences.
Zerzan doesn't hesitate to take on such Sacred Cows of the left as Noam Chomsky, challenging the MIT professor's views on the origins of language making capabilities in humans as being crassly reductionistic and dehumanizing. He also confronts Hakim 'King of the Anarchists' Bey and aptly dissects the Temporary Autonomous Zone mystique the author surrounds himself with and entrances his many vulnerable, if not gullible readers with. (see the writings of Luther Blisset for further elaboration on this.)
Running on Emptiness is the perfect negentropic unguent to the various pathologies at large, helping us ground out rather than abandon our intellectual, philosophical and cultural heritage in a way that may very well facilitate our connection with nature instead of creating further detachment from it. It is in this regard that I may reassess my views on anarchy's implicate impotence and hope that something viably intelligent comes from that wayward camp, at least enough for me to join their cause. Zerzan makes such a possibility more and more likely.
The System Creaks -- Will It Topple?.......2003-02-17
As we continue down the numbing path of modern "civilization," the anarcho-primitivist critique becomes more obviously true. As I made my way through Zerzan's essays, a radical split emerged in my consciousness. On the one hand, we're enmeshed in day-to-day struggles and anxieties, the all-consuming attention required just to scrape by and maintain some sense of sanity (and this in one of the more affluent societies on the planet). But Zerzan's stance is like a slap in the face. I began to see just how ridiculous and dehumanizing the entire modern system is. This dissonance between civilization's maximum-seriousness demands and our personal awareness that it's all a huge sham is essentially the substance of alienation, a theme which most liberals have abandoned, but which Zerzan always keeps central. Alienation is still the most explosive analytical tool for confronting our current situation.
Anarcho-primitivism may not have the most useful prescriptive program, but its descriptive power is unparalleled. The anarcho-primitvist goal is certainly utopian, but that is a good thing. Without utopian goals, we can have no transcendent position from which to challenge the present order. The intermediate mechanisms of change, through which we must work toward the utopian anarcho-primitivist future, should be the true program of liberalism. The left has condemned itself to irrelevancy by ignoring its utopian strand in favor of technical tinkering. We must recover our utopian roots in order to bear anarcho-primitivist fruit.
Is Technological Progress Good for You? .......2003-02-04
What a wonderful book! After reading it, I had so many question, I felt the need to talk with the author in person. After tracking down his number, I gave him a call (noting how odd it was to be talking with an "anarcho-primitivist" on the phone) and we arranged to meet the following week.
Within no time, I was down in Eugene, Oregon, walking through the infamous Whitaker district, known for it's vagrants and black-block anarchists, searching for Zerzan's co-op.
After spotting him on the porch, he greated me and invited me into his small, box-shaped house. Asside from a desk and a giant bookcase filled to the brim with old ragtag books and zines, his little house was empty and austere.
Sitting on an old, cleary-secondhand softa, we talked for over an hour about anarchism, ecology, history, technology, society, permaculture, natural farming and ecovillages. Then we took a walk to a local, independent coffee house to chat some more.
What struck me about Zerzan was his humility, patience, kindness, and penchent for critical thought. I mentioned my suprise that he had a telephone, and he agreed, in an ideal world one would not need a telephone. But, he said, he does not have a watch, or any of the other things that weigh us down and distract more than they help. Despite his revolutionary prose, I realized that a certain degree of compromise must be made for those who wish to stay inside civil society and reform it.
Sure, one could pack up and go live in a commune, but how would that help? The global economy would still spin out of control, and people would continue to live in ways that destroy the planet. Aside from the phone (and I have heard now that he sometimes borrows a friend's computer), which keeps him connected to the larger movement as well as curious people like me, Zerzan purposefully chooses to live as "primitive" as possible - a word and way of life he esteems for reasons outlined in this book.
I highly recommend reading RUNNING ON EMPTINESS even if you are an avowed progressive or technophile, if only for the sake of balance. As Zerzan shows, technological progress is not a unilinear process of self-refinement. In many ways it has alienated us from self, other and earth.
For those who have already begun to notice that civilization is not all roses, this book is absolutely essential. There is perhaps no better perspective on this subject. Zerzan will enrich and deepen whatever nascent criticisms you already have, and inspire you to learn more and take action.
A MUST READ
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Still Life with Woodpecker is sort of a love story that takes place inside a pack of Camel cigarettes. It reveals the purpose of the moon, explains the difference between criminals and outlaws, examines the conflict between social activism and romantic individualism, and paints a portrait of contemporary society that includes powerful Arabs, exiled royalty, and pregnant cheerleaders. It also deals with the problem of redheads.
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Still Life with Woodpecker is sort of a love story that takes place inside a pack of Camel cigarettes. It reveals the purpose of the moon, explains the difference between criminals and outlaws, examines the conflict between social activism and romantic individualism, and paints a portrait of contemporary society that includes powerful Arabs, exiled royalty, and pregnant cheerleaders. It also deals with the problem of redheads.
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A Love Story with Sauce.......2007-10-03
Every Tom Robbins novel is a fantastic journey with psychedelic whorl sauce. This novel will surprise readers who have navigated his novels with multiple converging stories and stretched fantasy. This is almost a regular novel from the Robbins set.
The novel has one story, of all things, a love story, with several overtly named and referenced themes the author invites the audience to analyze. This is a romantic novel (huh!) with a very traditional love story. I'm talking Romeo and Juliet stuff here. Is he baiting us? Is there something more to what he has directly pointed out? Maybe this time the story is told in his thoughts of object-ism, pyramid power, the moon and redheads (which is great) rather than his typical inviting challenge to follow the story in the characters. In this case, the story is a straightforward journey and the thematic discussions are the spot that requires effort. And by effort, I don't mean the Stairmaster or studying algebra, I mean allowing your mind to stretch out to meet Tom Robbins point to point.
As usual the characters in the story don't "fit the description"; an idealist princess and an outlaw; their actions intense and their purpose dubious which immediately makes it better than a "normal" book. I was challenged to dig the thematic definitions as deeply as I normally do the stories. Maybe I missed the connection between the characters and the themes that gives the book another layer. It is nice however, to see a different curve to a Robbins tale. For a regular Robbins reader the novel does have those things we love including the fantastic internal monologues that define the characters, the gluttonous descriptions of everyday objects (the Camel cigarette pack) and his incredible ability to concoct a story with a broken mold. For my tastes however, I enjoy dissecting a fantastic story more than I like trying to guess at someone else's conclusions on symbology and love.
Enjoyable Robbins.......2007-09-01
I have read Jitterbug Perfume, Skinny Legs and All, and Another Roadside Attraction, all of which would easily earn 5 stars (and do, for that matter). This is my least favorite of Tom Robbins' books, but it did keep me rather entertained. If you are into Robbins and you want to read lots of his work, I really think you should read this book (and the others listed above). If, however, you are looking for something better, check out Skinny Legs and All. This book is a great introduction to his style and is is better tied together than Still Life.
My main complaint about this novel is that it felt a little more disorganized than usual (yes, I know, Robbins does this intentionally). The follow up to this disorganization usually leads to meaningful connections and points at the end where the story(ies) is resolved. Although there is some resolution and excellent use of language (he is the master of the metaphor), it lacks the writing skill of his other works. Generally his books advertise the unique and he follows up by delivering the reader just that: an explanation of the problem with redheads, for example. Although difficult to say exactly why, other books tend to 'follow up' on these with more explanation and deeper meaning.
The other issue I have with this book is the character development. The relationship between the two protagonist redheads felt odd and forced at about 100 pages into the book. Whether or not you decide to read it, Tom Robbins' novels all demand patience. Give it time and make a commitment to the book. Knowing this, it is easy for me not to get worried 75 or 125 pages into one of his books. Being a little lost is OK at first.
garbage........2007-08-19
i really don't have much more to say than that. eh. i know this short and lazy review will bump me down a few spots on the reviewer ranks, but i dont care. i am already in the millions. robbins writes for the people who dont read...yes, that is you (i can see you scowling at my arrogance). read a real book...i know it is hard to do if your high school teacher isnt assigning it, and i applaud you for getting at least one down. keep trying.
Love is the ultimate outlaw.......2007-08-07
The world is meaningless? Let's not pretend that we can make meaning then; let's just play with nonsense. However, are we being narcissistic by animating an uncaring world? Is it selfish to want a mutual relationship with a spoon? Clearly, having a job, or being a part of any organization is "dull" or even "evil." On the other hand, for Leigh-Cheri, an unemployed princess, and Bernard "Woodpecker" Wrangle, an unemployed fugitive, Objecthood is the highest plane of consciousness in the Outlaw bible. What is Objecthood? "In time, Leigh-Cheri became intimate with most of the inanimate objects in her environment..." In Objecthood, rain is not just rain, tequila is not just tequila, and of course, a box of cigarettes is not just a box of cigarettes. Throughout the book, Robbins is frantically personifying and free associating and generally making excessive word play. Whereas Vonnegut seemed to keep his descriptions to their intellectual and emotional essentials, Robbins prefers to repetitively lambaste a topic to death. Speaking of death, apparently, in 1980, a guy and his explosives could be considered a free-spirited nonconformist. However, in the later part of the 20th century, we have been jaded by the bombing massacres at Columbine (April 20, 1999) and Oklahoma City (April 19, 1995). The Woodpecker's light-hearted destruction of property no longer seems so playful or heroic. At one point in the story, Robbins even provides several recipes for making household bombs. Nevertheless, humanizing a cold abstraction or even some natural phenomenon gives us a way to understand it, one more way to arrange the world in our own terms, so that we can further comprehend it. Here the metaphors sometimes take over the book and control it. "Still Life with Woodpecker" is a pastiche of Vonnegut, Penthouse "Letters," pagan mythology and pop psychology. If you can get through the first third of the book, a mildly amusing story emerges.
couldn't even finish it.......2007-07-10
A now ex-boyfriend loaned me this book when we first started dating, it was his favorite book. Totally understand why we didn't work. I tried so hard to get into this book and read it and understand it, but it was awful (personal opinion only, don't blast me for hating). I can't even put into words why I hated it, I just did. It made little to no sense (the overly quirky and likely severely stoned author kept breaking into the story to yell at his old school type-writer the Remington...what>!?!). I should have ended the relationship based on the fact that this was his favorite book, turns out we were completely different and incompatable and our opinions of this book were merely the beginning. Not that there is anything wrong with him, the book or the author, its just not my thing even a little bit. No offense meant to those who are fans. I just didn't get it. What makes love stay...seriously, how can this book even remotely be marketed as a love story. Sure if an uptight yuppie princess finds a dirty, chain smoking, bad teethed criminal to be her Prince Charming, then ok...its a love story. Whatever.
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The longleaf pine ecosystem, once one of the most extensive ecosystems in North America, is now among the most threatened. Over the past few centuries, land clearing, logging, fire suppression, and the encroachment of more aggressive plants have led to an overwhelming decrease in the ecosystem’s size, to approximately 2.2% of its original coverage. Despite this devastation, the range of the longleaf still extends from Virginia to Texas. Through the combined efforts of organizations such as the USDA Forest Service, the Longleaf Alliance, and the Nature Conservancy, extensive programs to conserve, restore, and manage the ecosystem are currently underway.
The longleaf pine ecosystem is valued not only for its aesthetic appeal, but also for its outstanding biodiversity, habitat value, and for the quality of the longleaf pine lumber. It has a natural resistance to fire and insects, and supports more than thirty threatened or endangered plant and animal species, including the red-cockaded woodpecker and the gopher tortoise.
The Longleaf Pine Ecosystem unites a wealth of current information on the ecology, silviculture, and restoration of this ecosystem. The book also includes a discussion of the significant historical, social, and political aspects of ecosystem management, making it a valuable resource for students, land managers, ecologists, private landowners, government agencies, consultants, and the forest products industry.
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Dr. Shibu Jose is Associate Professor of Forest Ecology and Dr. Eric J. Jokela is Professor of Silviculture at the School of Forest Resources and Conservation at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Dr. Deborah L. Miller is Associate Professor of Wildlife Ecology in the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation at the University of Florida in Milton.
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The last documented sighting of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker--one of the rarest and most intriguing animals in the world--was noted over 50 years ago. Long thought to be extinct, the 2005 announcement of a sighting in Arkansas sparked tremendous enthusiasm and hope that this species could yet be saved. But the subsequent failure of a massive search to relocate Ivorybills in Arkansas made hope for the species' revival short-lived. Here, noted ornithologist Geoffrey Hill tells the story of how he and two of his colleagues stumbled upon what may be a breeding population of Ivory-billed Woodpeckers in the swamps of northern Florida. He relates their laborious attempts to document irrefutable evidence for the existence of this shy, elusive bird following the failure of a much larger research team to definitively prove the bird's existence. Hill tells of his travails both in and out of the vast swamp wilderness, pulling back the curtain to reveal the little-seen political maneuvering that is part of all modern science. He explains how he and his group decided who to exclude or include as their findings came in, and why they felt the need to keep their search a secret. Hill returns repeatedly to how expectations can guide observations, and how tempting it is to oversell evidence in the face of the struggle between an overwhelming desire to find the bird and the need to retain integrity and objectivity. Written like a good detective story, Ivorybill Hunters also delves into the science behind the rediscovery of a species, explaining how professional ornithologists follow up on a sight record of a rare bird, and how this differs from the public's perception of how scientists actually work. Hill notes the growing role of amateurs in documenting bird activity and discusses how the community of birders and nature lovers can see, enjoy, and help preserve these birds. Ivorybill Hunters will prove a fascinating read for those with an interest in natural history, adventure, environmental conservation, and science, as well as the more than forty-six million Americans who now call themselves birdwatchers.
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good story, but where is the proof?.......2007-10-10
I think this book needs to be reviewed on two levels: first is this a good, honest, readable book, and then second is their credible evidence for the Ivorybilled woodpecker presented?
Dr. Hill writes in an open manner that makes the account of the search readable. There are stories of alligators, a stolen kayak, and almost being lost in a remote area. I think he is honest in presenting what he thinks he saw and his motives ... I don't think if he was being open, he would state that his group a panther in North Florida (they are not known to occur there). He also is willing to state his motives, even if not completely honorable (to do a better job that the Cornell team and to have a southern team find a southern bird). On this account, it is ironic that he criticized Cornell on their evidence, when he offers little more. In one short chapter, whose purpose seems to increase his own credibility, he dismisses the experience of locals (who had never reported them) as well as the more systematic Florida Breeding Bird Atlas. Hill is quite open about mistakes made and opportunities missed.
As a book (and his published scientific article) that tries to present evidence it is not all that convincing (and he himself states this is not proof). As Carl Sagan said "Extraordinary claims requires extraordinary proof". Although he argues that the Ivorybilled in Florida are different than those that were in the Singer tract, he does not seem willing to accept that Pileated Woodpeckers may have variability in cavity size or behavior. The circle showing the ivory billed on page 232 could be any black and white (however somewhat better images are published on the Auburn web site). The reader is really left with little evidence to examine other than the word of a few good observers. The reader is also left to ponder, whether Hill rushed to publish this book and findings, just as he criticized the Cornell team. For the skeptic there are some nice blogs on the Ivorybill as well as important paper by Jerome Jackson.
Opinion on Iverybill Hunters.......2007-10-03
A very detailed
account of a search for Ivorybills in a north Florida river swamp, which led me to believe that the author and his crew had in fact found a breeding population of these woodpeckers; the author certainly seems convinced of this. Both he and his students seem to have convincing expertise on the identification of this species, although they failed to obtain absolute proof in the form of videos and photos, due to the great difficulties involved and their admitted lack of expertise with cameras. They did obtain many minutes of sound recordings which were quite convincing to outside experts. All in all, a very interesting and encouraging account of a search for these birds in what remains of wild America. I recommend it.
Ivorybill Hunters: The search for Proof in a Flooded Wilderness.......2007-09-12
This is an incredible account of an ongoing story that is still alive even now. The implication af the rediscovery of the Ivorybill Woodpecker is unparalleled in conservation history and this account is most exciting!!
Chasing after hope on a feather.......2007-05-05
I remember hearing news of an ivorybill sighting in 2005, followed up by purported sound recordings of the formerly extinct species and then fleeting video footage. Since then, several research teams and amateur birders have claimed sightings, but none have captured definitive proof of the bird's existence.
Throughout all the debate, excitement, speculation and accusations, two things struck me: First, Nature never fails to surprise, and second, the passions of people also never fail to surprise.
Now we have the story of the (maybe) resurrection of a thought-to-be-lost species by one of its hunters, Professor Geoffrey E. Hill, who was part of a 2005/2006 Florida search team that found tantalizing evidence but no definitive proof of ivorybills in the forests around the Choctawhatchee river.
"Ivorybill Hunters" reads like a good detective novel filled with political intrigue, clashing agendas, and a forest of tantalizing leads, most of which ended up as dead ends. The ivorybill has taken on such a mythic status that one could compare it to another famous bird, the Maltese Falcon, both of which are the stuff on which dreams, and in the case of the ivorybill, reputations and history, are made.
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All who seek the elusive Ivory-billed Woodpecker rely on this elegant treatise from 1942, an extensive profile of the species' characteristics and habits that includes its original distribution patterns; the history of its disappearance; and its feeding, nesting, and breeding habits. 20 halftones, 17 tables, 22 other illustrations.
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Still Life With Woodpecker
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I Wonder What Noah Did with the Woodpeckers: Tales from the Far Side of Christian Life
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After hardbound sales of nearly 30,000, author Tim Wildmon's first book is re-released in trade paper. Tim finds intrigue, humor, and spiritual application in the everyday episodes of life. From this self-professed Mississippi redneck (but one of depth and sophistication) comes a tremendous collection of stories sure to make readers smile, laugh, stop, and ponder. Perhaps there are life lessons-golden nuggets-that can be mined when, at wit's end, we are left to wonder exactly what DID Noah do with the woodpeckers?
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Wonderfully funny and inspiring book........1999-09-16
This is a great book that I would recommend to everyone! Mr. Wildmon does a great job showing the funny side of life while throwing in inspiring little messages. I can't wait to read his second book!
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The Red-cockaded Woodpecker: Surviving in a Fire-Maintained Ecosystem (Corrie Herring Hooks Series, Number Forty-nine)
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"I have the greatest admiration for this work, presented as it is in such a readable style and with such a convincing argument. I think the book sets a new standard for works of this type."
—from the Foreword
Though small among its woodpecker relatives, the Red-cockaded Woodpecker poses a huge dilemma for its human neighbors. Uniquely adapted to live in the old-growth pine forests of the southeastern United States, the Red-cockaded Woodpecker has nearly disappeared as the forests have been cleared for agricultural, commercial, and residential uses over the last two centuries. Today, it waits at a crossroads. Scientific management practices could restore the woodpecker's habitat and population, but the imperative to convert old-growth forests to other uses remains.
In this book, three of the leading experts on the Red-cockaded Woodpecker offer a comprehensive overview of all that is currently known about its biology and natural history and about the ecology of the fire-maintained forests it requires for survival. As the most visible endangered species in the Southeast, and the one whose conservation impacts the largest land area, the Red-cockaded Woodpecker holds a compelling interest not only for ornithologists, but also for wildlife managers, foresters, developers, environmentalists, and government officials. For all of these groups, this book will be the essential resource for learning more about the Red-cockaded Woodpecker and ensuring its survival.
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